Federal Act
on Political Rights
(PRA)1

of 17 December 1976 (Status as of 23 October 2022)

1 Inserted by No I of the FA of 26 Sept. 2014 (National Council elections), in force since 1 Nov. 2015 (AS 2015 543; BBl 2013 9217).


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Art. 3 Political domicile

1 Votes shall be cast in the polit­ic­al dom­i­cile, i.e. the com­mune in which the per­son eli­gible to vote is res­id­ent and re­gistered to vote. Per­sons of no-fixed res­id­ence shall vote in their com­mune of ori­gin.7

2 Any per­son who de­pos­its an iden­ti­fic­a­tion doc­u­ment oth­er than the cer­ti­fic­ate of ori­gin (cer­ti­fic­ate of res­id­ence, pro­vi­sion­al cer­ti­fic­ate, etc.) shall ac­quire polit­ic­al dom­i­cile only if they prove that they are not re­gistered to vote in the place where their cer­ti­fic­ate of ori­gin is de­pos­ited.

7Second sen­tence in­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 18 March 1994, in force since 15 Nov. 1994 (AS 1994 2414; BBl 1993 III 445).

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